A good hundred years ago, the lyrical work of Berlin poet Hedwig Caspari appeared in the relevant anthologies and magazines alongside texts by Max Brod, Albert Ehrenstein, Ludwig Strauss, Robert Walser, Franz Werfel, Alfred Wolfenstein and Else Lasker-Schüler, with whom she was occasionally compared. Caspari found her own, rather skeptical tone in her poems, which set her apart from the messianic fantasies of redemption of others. Her Solomon drama also stands out among the biblical dramas of the 20th century and can compete with Beer-Hofmann's dramatic poems. What is unusual here is her critical view of the figure of Solomon, whose male hubris she sees through and consistently dissects. Only three years after the publication of her first volume of poetry, Elohim (1919), Hedwig Caspari put an end to her still young career as a poet herself when she took her own life with poison in 1922 at the age of forty. Little is known about her life; manuscripts have been lost. The new edition of her works brings together everything that can currently be found - her drama Salomos Abfall (1920), the poems and a few contemporary letters and testimonies to her reception - in one volume. In their afterword, the editor and publisher provide an introduction to Caspari's poetics.
Hedwig Caspari. Uns gehört keine Zeit. Elohim, Salomos Abfall, verstreute Texte und Zeugnisse
Zittel, Claus;
In corso di stampa
Abstract
A good hundred years ago, the lyrical work of Berlin poet Hedwig Caspari appeared in the relevant anthologies and magazines alongside texts by Max Brod, Albert Ehrenstein, Ludwig Strauss, Robert Walser, Franz Werfel, Alfred Wolfenstein and Else Lasker-Schüler, with whom she was occasionally compared. Caspari found her own, rather skeptical tone in her poems, which set her apart from the messianic fantasies of redemption of others. Her Solomon drama also stands out among the biblical dramas of the 20th century and can compete with Beer-Hofmann's dramatic poems. What is unusual here is her critical view of the figure of Solomon, whose male hubris she sees through and consistently dissects. Only three years after the publication of her first volume of poetry, Elohim (1919), Hedwig Caspari put an end to her still young career as a poet herself when she took her own life with poison in 1922 at the age of forty. Little is known about her life; manuscripts have been lost. The new edition of her works brings together everything that can currently be found - her drama Salomos Abfall (1920), the poems and a few contemporary letters and testimonies to her reception - in one volume. In their afterword, the editor and publisher provide an introduction to Caspari's poetics.
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